Cooley - Primary Groups

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  • Primary groups
  • competitive unity
  • social unity
  • family, play-group, community
  • play-group : human nature, human ideals

  • Family
    • Nursery of human nature
  • Play-groups
    • Boys (after 12) - Sympathy, ambition, honor engaged even more
  • Neighborhood
    • Primary life of the people
    • Sympathy / mutual aid
  • Socie
    • Clubs, frats
    • Rise to intimacy

IN-CLASS.
Primary Groups
  1. face to face interaction
  2. shape your behavior
  3. People support each other depend upon / hate (values / morals)
  4. Universal - building block for self-determination
  5. Small village
  6. Cant manufacture primary groups
  7. "we" identify with the group not self "i" is a "we"
  8. Neighborhood elder
  9. Family / people your around
  10. Children / Playgroups
  11. Not isolation (universal foundation of human identity)
  12. Complicated (not all good)
  13. Studies shown that infant separated from primary group then reunited is not always successful
  14. "we" not isolation but unity
  15. throughout life
  16. No escape.